RAF Museum  

 

 

ADDRESS

Grahame Park Way, Hendon, NW9 5LL

 

 

TELEPHONE

020 8205 2266 

 

TWITTER

@rafmuseum

 

OPENING TIMES

Daily 10am-6pm (last admission 4pm)

 

PRICES

FREE

 

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2018 marks the centenary of the Royal Air Force and, coinciding with the celebrations, RAF Museum underwent a multi-million pound redevelopment. Here you can test your flying skills, explore RAF stories, sit inside a cockpit and explore three immersive exhibitions which highlight the stories of the people in the blue uniforms. The 2018 upgrade also added landscaped green spaces, children's playground and a restaurant. Britain's National Museum of Aviation, or RAF Museum, comprises several hundred thousand objects ranging in size from aircraft to lapel badges, and spanning more than a century of aviation history. The Historic Hangars, listed buildings that were part of the old Hendon Aerodrome, contain five exhibitions with an impressive collection of over 100 full-sized aircraft, some suspended from the ceiling, as if in flight. Helicopters, water landing aeroplanes, fighters and bombers, past and present, are all on display. The Battle Britain tells the story of the RAF's historic fight against Germany in the 1940's, featuring a de Havilland Tiger Moth II, the world's most famous training aircraft, a Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire among the very planes that went to war. The museum also houses an Aeronauts Interactive Centre with over 40 hands on experiments showing how an aeroplane weighing hundreds of tonnes can stay in the sky with real and simulated cockpits to sit in. Kids and plane enthusiasts alike will love it.

RAF Museum  RAF Museum, 2018